Wrestlemania, WWE’s biggest event of the year, is right around the corner. It’s coming to the WWE Network and PPV on Sunday, April 8. Fans should get prepared for an all-day affair as 2017’s Wrestlemania 33 was six and a half hours long. This year’s show will take place at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in the city of New Orleans.

Aside from the main card, Wrestlemania weekend will also consist of the Hall of Fame ceremony on Friday–with both Kid Rock and Mark Henry, among others, being inducted–NXT Takeover on Saturday, and Wrestlemania itself on Sunday. At the time of this writing, a Kickoff Show has not been announced, but you can expect one to start two hours prior to Wrestlemania 34 at 5 PM ET/2 PM PT, much like last year’s Mania event.

While the match card has not been finalized, the PPV is looking pretty full already, and there are still championships that need to be defended and main event stars that need a place on the card. The newest addition to this year’s PPV is the Women’s Battle Royal match, which will most likely appear on the Kickoff Show with the Men’s Battle Royal. Originally, the women’s match was named the Fabulous Moolah Memorial Battle Royal, but WWE changed the name due to some controversy.

There have been a lot of rumors as to which stars will be on the final card, but as the weeks go on, we will only be discussing matches confirmed by the WWE, including where recently cleared Daniel Bryan fits into all of this. Keep checking back up until Wrestlemania 34 as we’ll also have pieces fully discussing each of the matches at the PPV. For now, here are our predictions for the event.

UFC 222 appears to have been saved.
After days of negotiations, the UFC has scheduled Cris “Cyborg” Justino vs. Yana Kunitskaya for the women’s featherweight title on March 3 in Las Vegas, MMA Fighting has learned. The fight will replace the card’s original headliner, Max Holloway vs. Frankie Edgar for the men’s featherweight title, which was canceled last week after Holloway suffered an ankle injury in training.

As for Edgar, he will now face Brian Ortega in a non-title fight in the co-main event, sources say. The winner is expected to be next in line for a title shot.

Justino (19-1, 1 NC) is coming off a unanimous decision win over Holly Holm in December. She hasn’t lost an MMA fight since her pro debut in 2005. Kunitskaya (10-3), who is 2-2 with one no contest in her last five fights, is the former Invicta FC bantamweight champion. She announced last month that she was moving up to 145 pounds. This fight will mark her UFC debut.

Edgar (22-5-1) hasn’t fought since May of last year, when he defeated Yair Rodriguez at UFC 211. Ortega extended his record to a perfect 13-0 (1 NC) in December when he defeated Cub Swanson.

The UFC also tried to book T.J. Dillashaw vs. Cody Garbrandt 2 for the men’s bantamweight title as the new UFC 222 main event, but that fight failed to materialize.

UFC 222 is scheduled to take place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and it is the third UFC pay-per-view since December to lose its original main event a month (or less) out.

Tewa Kiram stands apart from most professional boxers from Thailand.
For one, Kiram stands about 5-foot-10, which is a fair bit taller than most of his fighting countrymen.

And he competes in the welterweight division, which is more than 30 pounds heavier than, say, Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, the world champion from Thailand who reigns at super flyweight (115 pounds). Kiram says he could even fight at middleweight (160 pounds) if he so desired.

Kiram (38-0, 28 KOs), whose given name is Teerachai Sithmorseng Kratingdaenggym, is ranked No. 1 at 147 pounds by the World Boxing Association, and will take on Argentine slugger and former interim 140-pound champ Lucas Matthysse (38-4, 35 KOs) for the vacant WBA World Welterweight title Saturday night at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif. The winner earns a shot at WBA super champion Keith Thurman.

“I’m very thankful that I’m fighting for a world title against Lucas Matthysse,” Kiram said during Thursday’s final press conference. “I’m looking forward to winning a world title and taking the belt back to Thailand.”

This is Kiram’s first fight in the United States, and also his first shot at a world title. As you might imagine, he has trouble finding comparably-sized sparring partners in Thailand. He says he has to look to China, the Philippines and Thai-Americans to find sparring partners. “Whatever style they bring for Matthysse, that’s what they have to bring,” Kiram said.

Kiram describes his style as boxer and puncher, who counts the jab as perhaps his most important punch. He started out like most Thai boxers, in Muay Thai, a martial arts discipline that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. He converted full-time to boxing at 19 and is now 25. While he has not fought anywhere near the caliber of competition Matthysse has, like the Argentine he has knocked out most of his opponents (74%). But it took him nearly nine rounds to take out a fighter making his professional debut early last year.

Still, he’s not too concerned about facing a heavy-handed KO artist like Matthysse, who at 35 is 10 years older than Kiram. “I’m relaxed, and I will do what I have to do,” he said through a translator. “I want to do this for my country and for all the Thai kids who never had the same opportunity as me.”

Matthysse, coming off an impressive fifth-round knockout victory against Emmanuel Taylor last May, following a more than two-year layoff to heal a broken orbital bone from his knockout loss to Viktor Postal in October 2015, has his own ideas for how the fight will play out.

“We prepared for this fight really well. We prepared in Argentina, and then finished in Indio (Calif.),” he said. “We will walk away with a world title. We know that he manages his distance well and that he has a good jab, but we prepared for that. We learned a few things, but I assure the fans that they will once again see ‘The Machine’ this Saturday.”

The UFC’s last event of the year doesn’t have the luster of the usual NYE cards, but there are a lot of good fights set for the December 30th card in Las Vegas. While there’s no Conor McGregor, there is still a title fight – Cris Cyborg will defend her women’s featherweight title against former bantamweight champion Holly Holm.

In the co-main event, Khabib Nurmagomedov will make his eagerly-awaited return, taking on Edson Barboza in a fight that could decide the next title challenger (whether it be against McGregor or interim champ Tony Ferguson).

Speaking of top contenders, Jimmie Rivera will try to get closer to a title shot at 135 when he meets hard hitting John Lineker. Carlos Condit will make his return against Neil Magny. And Cynthia Calvillo will look for her fifth win of 2017 (fourth in the UFC) when she meets former 115-pound champ Carla Esparza.

Here’s a look at the current card. The UFC hasn’t decided on a bout order yet, and the card currently only has 10 bouts. That might change before Christmas.

Saunders first lifted the WBO crown in December 2015 against Ireland’s Andy Lee, dropping him twice in one round on the way to outpointing the former Champion. A year later, the Hatfield fighter then followed up that performance with a close decision win over game Russian Artur Akavov, which ultimately led to the appointment of new trainer Dominic Ingle in the summer of 2017.

In September, the Champion dominated Middleweight contender Willie Monroe Jr, out-boxing the American over 12 rounds. Demonstrating new-found discipline and stamina under coach Ingle, in addition to his natural southpaw skill set, Saunders improved to 25-0 (12 KOs) in London.

French-speaking powerhouse Lemieux is known as a concussive puncher with 33 knockouts in 38 wins, and only 3 losses. He is possibly the hardest hitter Saunders will have fought thus far in his career.

The Canadian became IBF ruler in 2015 after beating Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam, dropping the Frenchman four times en-route to a decision win to set up a bout with Kazakh superstar Gennady Golovkin. Lemieux fought bravely against ‘Triple G’ but lost via eighth round stoppage.

Since then the former Champion has racked up four wins on the trot against a who’s who of Middleweight contenders, including a highlight-reel KO against Curtis Stevens, and now has the chance cement his place as World Champion for a second time.

In this classic boxer versus puncher match-up, Saunders admits this is his biggest test to date. The Englishman will want to pass with flying colours in order to finally land a shot at Golovkin or Canelo Alvarez to unify the Middleweight division.

Reborn as a welterweight, Rafael dos Anjos isn’t necessarily looking to be the poster boy for the importance of fighting closer to your natural weight. Instead, the former UFC 155-pound champion is simply happy to enjoy the fringe benefits of his move 15 pounds north.

“I can enjoy eating now that I’m a welterweight,” Dos Anjos said. “I can live. I can eat normal. I don’t have to have that feeling after having my meal of still being hungry. Now, if I feel hungry, I can eat again if I want.”
Dos Anjos (27-9), who could find himself on the doorstep of a welterweight title shot should he get past former champion Robbie Lawler (28-11) in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night card in Winnipeg (8 p.m. ET, FOX), knows better than anyone just how dangerous dramatic weight cutting can be.
Before his 2014 victory over Benson Henderson, dos Anjos was forced to shed 23 pounds in just three days to make the lightweight limit. In July 2016, the day before losing his UFC title to Eddie Alvarez via first-round TKO, dos Anjos fainted while sitting in a hot tub trying to melt off the final pounds.
“Before, 70 to 80 percent of my camp was focused on losing weight and being stressed out about making weight,” dos Anjos said. “Now, I still have to cut some weight, but it’s way easier. I can have a normal life, I can enjoy my life and my training and put 100 percent of the work into my technique and training and not just losing weight and being stressed out. It’s been a very good moment for me. I’ve been around for so long, but I’ve never been as happy as I am now.”

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